Poetic incongruity found the British kings of comedy holding their farewell show, Monty Python Live (mostly), in London, even as..
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A woman clothed in a drab dress, shawl and bonnet walks onto the TAG stage and with a bit of..
The dynamism of improv is exhilarating, except when it flops. Yet, traditional theater can feel a bit, well rehearsed. There’s..
On a trip to Myanmar (Burma) several years ago, while visiting my umpteenth stupa, I was once again bombarded by..
You’ve seen it around town. It’s a bird, it’s a truck … no wait, it’s a bird on a truck...
While reading local author Jonathan Moore’s first novel, a sci-fi horror-thriller and Bram Stoker Award nominee called Redheads (2013), a..
When I first heard about burlesque in Hawaii a few years ago, I wondered what exactly happens during such a..
I haven’t seen a classic, full-scale rendition of The Mikado, but I did see a Punahou production several years back..
It’s no longer Save Our Whales, but Save Our Oceans. While the sea might not be the first thing that..
I recently visited the magnificent Spalding House grounds in Makiki Heights (526-1322, honolulumuseum.org) to watch museum staff guide 47 fifth-graders..
It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play … Actually, it was 50 years ago..
With so much artistic revelry afoot, no less would do than a mishmash of some prominent events. First up is..
We’ve heard of San Francisco-based Kumu Patrick Makuakane’s Hare Krishna hula, and now the famously playful kumu and his halau,..
There’s plenty to keep one transfixed at this year’s Cinémathèque Française at Doris Duke Theatre, but it’s a couple of..
It’s nearing sunset as I make my way to the sprawling graveyard on Nuuanu Avenue, where I join a group..
Shakespeare’s tome doesn’t call forth visions of students on stage. Nevertheless, the Bard and high school students make an ideal..
In a flurry of motion, hula dancers leap off the screen to soulful Hawaiian chanting, or leis are piled forehead-high..
He’s on the penny and the five-dollar bill, and he’s as famous for his top hat and beard as for..
To read Gail N. Harada’s poetry and prose is to be cradled by words – words that transcend the sum..
We’re familiar with the impossibly fast hip-swaying of Tahitian dancers and their bright costumes that fan out like a burst..
